Carl Van Vechten Final Draft

Carl Van Vechten Date of Birth: June 17, 1880 Place of Birth: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S. Date of Death: December 21, 1964 (aged 84) Place of Death: New York City, New York, U.S. Country of origin, citizenship: United… Read More

Clara Tice Biography Final Draft

Clara Tice Date of Birth: May 22nd, 1888 Place of Birth: New York City Date of Death: February 2nd, 1973 Place of Death: New York City (studio apartment in Queens, New York City) Country of Origin, Citizenship: America… Read More

Alfred Kreymborg was born in 1883 to a German father and an American mother in New York City. Though he did not go on to inherit the family cigar business, he did inherit his father’s prodigious chess skills…. Read More

Mabel Dodge (Luhan)

Mabel Dodge hosted modernist salons in Florence, New York City, and Taos, New Mexico, presiding over her guests as an intellectual provocateur, before turning to memoir at the end of her career. Dodge was born in 1879 in… Read More

Final Ezra Pound Bio

Biography In her essay “Of Modern Poetry,” Mina Loy writes: “To speak of the modern movement is to speak of [Ezra Pound]; the masterly impresario of modern poets, for without the discoveries he made with his poet’s instinct… Read More

Final Biography Marianne Moore

A Brief Biography by Abbey C. An imaginative and eccentric poet who was as fiery as her bright red hair, Marianne Moore earned popular acclaim for both her poetry and her peculiar character. Born in 1887 in Kirkland,… Read More

Frances Simpson Stevens

In her early 20s, Frances Simpson Stevens was the lone American at the center of the Futurist movement. Today, however, only one of her paintings has been preserved and few people know her name. Stevens was born in… Read More

Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia [1879- 1953] was an eclectic Avant-Garde artist. The French-born painter was most famous for his work in Cubism and Dadaism but his creations were not restricted to just those movements (Camfield 21). Some of his most… Read More